Notable Games
Peter Leko
15 celebrated games · 569 in the full archive
◈The games that made the legend
Leko – Kramnik · 1995 · 1–0
A 15-year-old Leko defeats future World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in a Sicilian Richter-Rauzer at Belgrade 1995, an early sign of the youngest grandmaster's arrival among the elite.
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Leko – Beliavsky · 1998 · 1–0
A Pirc Defense attacking win over veteran Alexander Beliavsky at the 1998 Madrid Magistral, one of the games chessgames.com lists among Leko's most notable.
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Leko – Ivanchuk · 1999 · 1–0
A Sicilian Taimanov victory over Vassily Ivanchuk at Linares 1999, from the year Leko broke through for his first super-tournament win at Dortmund.
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Leko – Topalov · 1999 · 1–0
A Pirc Defense win over Veselin Topalov, a world top-ten grandmaster and future FIDE World Champion, at the 1999 Frankfurt-West Masters.
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Leko – Ghaem Maghami · 2001 · 1–0
A 27-move Sicilian Najdorf victory at the 2001 World Team Championship in Yerevan, one of the games chessgames.com singles out among Leko's notable wins.
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Leko – Adams · 2002 · 1–0
A Petrov Defense win over Michael Adams at the 2002 Dortmund Candidates Tournament, the event that decided the challenger to World Champion Kramnik.
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Leko – Topalov · 2002 · 1–0
Leko outlasts Veselin Topalov in an 81-move Sicilian in the first game of the 2002 Dortmund Candidates final, the match he won to become Kramnik's official World Championship challenger.
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Leko – Anand · 2003 · 1–0
A Petrov Defense win over Viswanathan Anand in the final round of Linares 2003, the "Wimbledon of Chess" that Leko shared first at ahead of Kramnik, Anand and Kasparov.
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Leko – Radjabov · 2003 · 1–0
A French Defense attacking victory over Teimour Radjabov at Linares 2003, one of Leko's chessgames.com notable games from his tournament-winning run.
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Leko – Kramnik · 2004 · 1–0
A Queen's Gambit Declined win over World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in Game 5 of the 2004 Classical World Championship match at Brissago, leveling the match.
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Kramnik – Leko · 2004 · 0–1
The famous Marshall Attack: Leko wins with Black against World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in Game 8 of the 2004 Classical World Championship match at Brissago, taking the lead in a match he came within one game of winning.
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Anand – Leko · 2005 · 0–1
A Sveshnikov Sicilian win with Black over Viswanathan Anand in round 2 of the 2005 Corus tournament at Wijk aan Zee, which Leko went on to win outright ahead of Anand, Topalov and Kramnik.
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Leko – Radjabov · 2006 · 1–0
A Sveshnikov Sicilian victory over Teimour Radjabov at Morelia/Linares 2006.
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Leko – Gelfand · 2007 · 1–0
A Sicilian Najdorf attacking win over Boris Gelfand at the 2007 ACP World Cup in Odessa.
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Leko – Carlsen · 2008 · 1–0
A Ruy Lopez win over a 17-year-old Magnus Carlsen at the 2008 Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee, five years before Carlsen became World Champion.
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